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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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IBM SPP vSnap Seeding from a Remote Site

Customer with Remote Offices need a way to seed initial backups in the local vSNAP server with the centralised HQ rather than waiting for data to transfer over the WAN links.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Select datastore per VMDK during restore

When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPPlus : restore VM to my cloud provider

In Spectrum Protect plus , it would be interesting to have the ability to restore a VM to a cloud provider. As we can restore to alternate location today, alternate location could be then IBM Cloud or Amazon or Azure so the VM is being restored an...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus GUI national language support

Request for SPP GUI in Japanese.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

File Indexing - Change default SSH port 22

For file indexing restore the SSH service must be running on port 22 on the server. Please add an ability to change default SSH port 22 to other.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Inherited VM options on a per backup policy level

Backup policies defined on a per tag basis are allowed to inherit the parent options associated with the tag (i.e. defining proxy server, snapshot retries, application/filesystem consistency, etc.). As these options get defined for a single tag, t...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release